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Cultural activists are jammin'
In a week that has seen global attention focused on Bob Geldof and the Live 8 series of concerts it…
Two bars
The 2005 Brit Awards were their usual combination of drunk, daft pop singers, pseudo-goth guitarists and drummers who spent much…
Generation W
Western marketing firms have made their business out of understanding generations that come in letters of the alphabet such as…
Listen Up
Hovering on the cusp of the arts world, audio artists manipulate sound to create unique aural landscapes with the aim…
Everything old is new again
The world's oldest and most lionised contemporary art show, the Venice Biennale, has delivered a 51st installment of precedent setting…
Florida Defrocked
Richard Florida's Rise of the Creative Class was published in 2002. Since then, in between speaking engagements, he has written…
Charitable Instincts
Increasingly, art and artists are being used as financial tools for charity groups and organizations. Charity art is any art…
da Vinci Code Decoded
Dan Brown didn't search for the Holy Grail. He wrote it. The da Vinci Code has sold around 20 million…
Art for the Marketās Sake?
Even the most idealistic and independent artists in the US must rely more and more on private sources of funding…
Art in China ā the lotus is in bloom
That China will become the next world superpower has been the argument of economists for decades, and few now doubt…